Why hammerstein-type block models are so efficient: Case study of financial econometrics

Abstract

© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. In the first approximation, many economic phenomena can be described by linear systems. However, many economic processes are non-linear. So, to get a more accurate description of economic phenomena, it is necessary to take this non-linearity into account. In many economic problems, among many different ways to describe non-linear dynamics, the most efficient turned out to be Hammerstein-type block models, in which the transition from one moment of time to the next consists of several consequent blocks: linear dynamic blocks and blocks describing static non-linear transformations. In this paper, we explain why such models are so efficient in econometrics.